Fullers’ “Passage” Great Oolite (79 feet). Forest Marble (74 feet). 
Earth. Beds. 
158 
PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1919 
DESCRIPTION OF THE ROCKS PASSED THROUGH BY THE 
BORE (No. 3) AT SHIPTON MOYNE. 
Top of Bore . — 311.37 feet above ordnance-datum. 
Percussion Boring . — 25 feet 6 inches deep. 
Rotary Boring. — 417 feet 6 inches : total depth 443 feet. 
1-2. Surface soil and " clay with grey stone and 
a thin bed of bluish rock at the base ” . . 
3a. " Beds of blue rock ” 
b. " Brown sandy loam ” 
c. “ Blue clay ” 
4 to 19. " Blue rock (hard) with bands of blue 
clay ” 
Limestone, etc., similar to those com- 
posing beds 4-19 proved in No. 1 Bore : 
x about 
I 20 to 22. A variable series of deposits similar to 
those composing beds 20-22 proved in 
No. 1 Bore 
23 to 25. Typical Forest Marble : about 
26 to 32. Bradford Clay (stratigraphical posi- 
tion of) . Grey shaly clay with occasional 
very thin layers of sandy limestone that 
\ are frequently covered with " tracks ’’ . . 
Limestones, oolitic, hard, bluish-grey at the top, 
but the main mass is softer and of a grey 
tint. Seams of clay are stated to occur 
between some of the constituent beds . . 
Coral Bed. Limestone, yellowish ; ? Clado- 
phyllia, Lima cardiiformis (J. Sowerby), 
Serpula sp. 
) (At 95 feet down a “ strong fissure ” was en- 
> countered.) 
Great Oolite Limestones. (a) Limestone, 
cream-coloured but with a pinkish tinge 
(b) Limestone similar to (a) 
(c) Limestone, grey, oolitic 
(d) Limestone, dark grey in the top-portion . . 
(e) Limestones, yellowish, oolitic 
, (The water in the bore-hole was lost at 153 feet.) 
Thickness of Depth. 
Rocks. 
Ft. 
Ins. 
Ft. 
Ins. 
6 
6 
6 
6 
11 
• 0 
17 
6 
0 
3 
17 
9 
2 
3 
20 
0 
5 
6 
25 
6 
19 
5 
44 
11 
10 
7 
55 
6 
12 
6 
68 
0 
6 
0 
74 
0 
21 
O 
95 
0 
I 
4i 
96 
4i 
I 
4l 
97 
9 
O 
IO 
98 
7 
O 
9 
99 
4 
2 
6 
IOI 
10 
51 
2 
153 
0 
42 to 53. Beds similar to those proved in No. 1 
Bore 
61 6 214 6 
54 to 60. Beds similar to those proved in No. 1 
Bore 
61. Fullers’ Earth similar to that proved in 
No. 1 Bore 
50 6 265 o 
35 o 300 o 
